Multimedia user interface

• US 20060164386A1
• Filed: 01/11/2006
• Published: 07/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Leftwich, James J., Quinn, Thomas J., Smith, Gregory C.
• Granted Patent: US 7,710,396 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0354 with detection of 2D relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D mice, trackballs, pens or pucks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/32 Remote control based on movements, attitude of remote control device
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 15/023 remotely controlled
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/025 'Virtual' control panels, e.g. Graphical User Interface [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42206 characterized by hardware details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42222 Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

A user interface for multimedia centers advantageously utilizes hand-held inertial-sensing user input devices to select channels and quickly navigate the dense menus of options. Extensive use of the high resolution and bandwidth of such user input devices is combined with strategies to avoid unintentional inputs and with dense and intuitive interactive graphical displays.

Claims

1-31. -31. (canceled)

32. A method for changing the displayed time-position of a cached program on an interactive multi-channel graphic display in response to rotation of a hand-held input device in one of pitch, yaw or roll, the method comprising the steps of:

displaying a range of selectable display time-positions on the display;

detecting the pitch, yaw or roll rotation of the input device;

selecting one of the display time-positions in response to the pitch, yaw or roll rotation of the input device; and

displaying the program at the selected display time-position on the interactive multi-channel graphic display in response to selection of the one display time-position.

33-39. -39. (canceled)

40. An apparatus for changing the displayed time-position of a cached program on an interactive multi-channel graphic display in response to rotation of a hand-held input device in at least one of pitch, yaw and roll, the apparatus comprising:

means for displaying a range of selectable display time-positions on the display;

means for detecting at least one of the pitch, yaw and roll rotation of the input device;

means for selecting one of the display time-positions in response to at least one of the pitch, yaw and roll rotation of the input device; and

means for displaying the program at the selected display time-position on the interactive multi-channel graphic display in response to selection of the one display time-position.